#mekadan

ayano: i imagine her into 80s-90s classics and city pop. karaoke go to song is stay with me but she always runs out of breath and someone (kano) has to help her finish it. otherwise she probably likes a bunch of anime openings too and whatever bands kenjirou or ayaka listened to lmao

i think she plays it in the background while she cleans or does stuff. otherwise she's a big podcast listener. definitely annoying person who needs to be introduced to the concept of headphones. as a good non headphone listener, she sings a lot over her music

kido: ok kido is easy bc we have canon fave musicians. oasis, radiohead and shugo tokumaru. so alt/indie rock LMAO it's very easy to imagine a playlist by kido. probably would not be of my personal taste (ive listened to all these JUST FOR kido in the past and i was like omg they'd hate me...)

i have to say WHILE i agree with your shin headcanons and ill get to that, kido is THE indie head. kido is largely pretentious about their music tastes and while it gets better with age (as in not as cringe) kagefuture kido is probably still like (to themselves) fucking posers....

kido listens to music all the time. earbuds. constantly! btw bass player kido anyone.... my precious kidoshin bonding moments shintaro teaches kido to play bass. also i think kido is decent at english because they're interested in song lyrics. they def write song lyrics to themselves. seriously we gotta get on the band aus mekatrio alt rock and pop duo kisaragis seriously im telling you Im telling you *grabs ur arm* hey im telling you

jin had said before kido is a GOOD singer which checks out and would sing mika nakashima songs in karaoke. hello? this fucking lesbian kido kido kido KIDO KIDO KIDO

seto: i think seto justs clicks random playlists for working out or whatever and listens to that. i don't think he's a music person even tho he listens to it a lot to drain out thoughts ofc...

i think maybe he likes some songs he's heard from kido and could be like whats that song you like that goes lalala and kido's like Im gonna need more details. i think he likes chill music and some of kido's music is very chill. he listens with earbuds, def noise canceling ones as the Technology gets there. mainly while he is out and about in public spaces. jin said in karaoke he'd sing bump of chicken which is really sweet and fitting i think

kano: i'd normally hc kano as liking indie emo sad boy music but kido already takes that up and it's funny to see them arguing and also it's important to remember kano IS a bubbly funny little guy. as an act maybe but a core part of him is genuinely a goofster. girls just wanna have fu-un...

so, i think kano listens to all the pop queens. including momo. even after momo quits being an idol he still listens to her music. obviously momo was everywhere 'cause drawing eyes but kano being the one to specifically know of her and him being so into teen magazines and shit lmao kano LOVES celebrity gossip.

jin has said kano would sing momo's songs in karaoke. duh! oh and i think like ayano he listens with no earbuds and sings and annoys everyone.

mary: she's definitely difficult, i think honestly same as kano? i think she would start getting really into idols after meeting momo. mary is tone deaf (jin fact) (funny considering her VA is a singer) but i hc she always gives it her all in karaoke and tries singing momo songs. i think mary, like seto, listens more passively and then she's frustrated she can't find what she listened to bc she just clicked a random playlist/straight up she just uses a radio and later can't remember the name of something she enjoyed

momo: kyaaaa. momo DOES NOT listen to idol or pop music. momo listens to shit like neros day at disneyland. definitely loves maretu. so like, electronic music and metal ig? (personally i love maretu but some songs are too intense for me. those are probably her favorite lol) i think momo likes listening to dj mixing or whatever it's called. no headphones

takane: another music head but i think she stands at a different rock taste than kido. i think takane's more into punk/garage rock and heavy metal. i think takane's into local bands too, since in canon she mentions going to see a band play at her hs even before she even went to school there so i imagine it was some small show and she's into that. of course. loves headphones. the louder the better

shintaro: ok what you said. the difference with kido is that shintaro is a VOCALOID PRODUCER indie head. he is SOOOOO annoying. you know damn well he's nitpicking voice tuning to hell and back he could talk about it for hours. i think he's very in the know of voca producers and music, special interest mode.

he listens to music in a way we couldn't comprehend it maybe kido could or any music obsessers reading, def not me. he loves that shit. he's def into vocaloid song series. ahahah. ohoho. ehehe. i think he listens to pretty much any genre as long as its vocaloid

he listens with HEADPHONES 👆 and kagefuture mode the car is his karaoke time. he has my favorite karaoke fact by jin which is his best song in the karaoke machine is hot limit by tm revolution LMAOOO dude he puts everything into it huh.

hibiya: i always struggle with hibiya headcanons im gonna be so honest. i dont even know. he didn't even know of momo so like what did you even listen to. no radio? no paying attention at background music at stores or whatever? jin really said middle of fucking nowhere he doesn't even get MUSIC.

what i can say is he'd definitely pretend to like popular boy bands hiyori likes just to seem cool but he ends up coming off as gay great job hibiya. jin says he'd sing AKB48 in karaoke which is awesome but id think it's bc its something hiyori likes rather something he likes. i have to say great job jin at writing a male character who is no one without the female character making him interesting Hibiya lovers dont come for me i love him too okay.

hiyori: any famous boy band she loves. she's into idols just canon. obsessed with bts her bias issss idk. namjoon is the cutest to me but maybe she's into jungkook #typical she loves singing and karaoke def sings AKB48 right after hibiya and does a better job.

i’ll go mekadan order

patient zero ayano-chan: funnily enough, i was strictly on the trans girl ayano headcanon for YEARS and then i wrote first kagefuture comic, and a literal thought i had was, ayanito you will be cis for this one comic, ‘kay? which is fine because i’m not writing any more. <- foolish. funny too bc i had my shinaya fankid ayame BEFORE writing kagefuture and i kept being like yeah she’s born through um. science baby idk. idk how to explain her existence. ayano gets shintaro pregnant or something. but no now she’s cis

the way i’ve been writing her generally is also very cis girl i think. she has so many social convictions of how things Should be. not that trans people can’t fall into these social norms and maybe even play into them because gender is. a complicated thing to navigate. but ayano specifically i feel i write her in a way she takes some things for granted. there’s something else about my change of hc but i’ll talk about it when i get to kano

for sexuality, i think ayano never questions it. i think she would self identify as straight if asked. between us in my kagepro blog, she’s not. she’s not straight. i think her first kiss was takane in hs she was insisting to practice making out like come onnn it doesn’t count we’re girls lolll. IT SOOO COUNTED. she’s bi or pan. honestly? she’s SO demi. no she doesn’t know what it means

kido: looks up into the sky. kido’s so blatantly trans. they’re nonbinary to me. i think they’d be interested in starting T but from what i’ve read HRT is sooo. difficult in japan. definitely not impossible but boy it’s so difficult. and VERY expensive.

if what i read is correct, you’re required to have top AND bottom surgery in order to change your gender legally and get access to hrt. which sounds very contradictory too i read some stuff and again it’s definitely not impossible and a lot of people are on hrt consistently. insurance covers nearly Nothing so it’s expensive as hell. so hand in hand with my Financial headcanons, i don’t think kido’s doing hrt. also kido isn’t transmasc, they’re nonbinary, so they aren’t into some of the changes that come with being on t. so while they do consider it a lot, i don’t think they’d go through all this bureaucratic process over something they aren’t sure about. so i don’t think they’d go on t. at least not current kagefuture moments (kido’s young, they’re only 27 lel)

i DO think they’re saving up crazy style to get top surgery. it’s possible to get in japan but a lot of trans ppl go to thailand for it because it’s cheaper, even with flight costs. i think momo offers to pay for it constantly, but kido’s adamant they will pay for it on their own. momo totally wants to get married in thailand too. japan L again. but that also is sooo complex like Oof. these 2 won’t be married for a while

kido’s a lesbian. yay. i think maybe demi as well but i don’t think they’d know or care about that label. kido totally identifies as a lesbian, i think they’ve known forever. i don’t think mekatrio ever felt the need to come out, they all just sort of. knew. and i think they come out as nb early post str.

seto: he’s the big buff butch he/him lesbian of everyone’s dreams, ok…? and he has has pcos. he’s a girl. i don’t have much to say about him, that’s mostly it. again, doesn’t come out. mostly just has to clarify he's a girl if asked. every woman he's ever worked with falls a little bit in love with him

kano: oof do i have stuff to say. because something similar happened to my hcs for him as it did for ayano. kagefuture simply happened. i also used to hc kano as a trans boy. and much like with ayano i changed my mind. here’s the thing. shintaro shipping.

IT SUCKS. IT SUCKS IT DOES AND I AM SORRY BUT basically. writing kagefuture, i.e writing shinaya and kanoshin, if ayano’s a trans girl and kano’s a trans boy… then shintaro’s whole thing CHANGES. these are deeply intertwined with my shintaro headcanons. but casually homophobe/transphobe shintaro is real. shintaro isn’t woke... (wasn't. he's ok kagefuturely speaking) i’ll get to it when i get to shintaro but basically

if kano is a trans boy, shintaro's whole gay thing is Way more complicated. shintaro's homophobia thing becomes shintaro's transphobia thing. if shintaro dated a trans boy he’d be like meh this isn’t actually gay. this isn’t actually a boy. BECAUSE HE'S SHINTARO. so it sucks to say it like this, but i did change my mind through this because it WAS to simplify the writing.

bc i wanted to focus on other stuff. that is genuinely it. i wouldn’t be able to say oh and kano’s trans and then never address it! who am i jkr. if kano was trans it would definitely affect the dynamic of his relationship with shintaro. same with trans girl ayano. if ayano was a trans girl shintaro probably wouldn’t have dated her back then, at least not as soon as he does. i promise i’ll be nicer to shintaro when i get to him it’s just. yeah.

and now its been so long and im SO invested in this kagefuture universe. that i’ve gotten more used to cis kano and ayano! both kano and ayano ended up being cis because of stupid shintaro LMAO. ayano also because baby craze she wants to be pregnant so bad. god but trans girl ayano desiring pregnancy too would be so good as well. that would be a different angsty comic though. also im not saying shinaya/kanoshin wouldn’t happen if kano and ayano were trans, it would just happen differently than how i’ve been writing it in the comics

anyways back to kano. calling him cis feels a little off too bc he’s. oh i definitely think he’s genderfluid. i don’t think kano thinks very hard about it, he tries to avoid thinking of his emotions if possible, but i do think the whole going to school as ayano thing woke up some stuff in him. lol. also living with kido + seto + mary + ayano he’s always like are you guys’ period synced up or something you’re being so annoying lolll!!! and they all beat him up. yay

also he’s gay. the ONLY mekadan character i hc as strictly liking men. L after L after L with this guy! also aroace. 'cause yeah. i have thoughts.

mary: she has NO idea. who the fuck knows. everyone’s asking. she has no answer. she’s still thinking about it. call her “she” though ‘cause she doesn’t mind, so, sure! i think she’s aroace, but she wouldn’t know what that is. either way she doesn’t like thinking much about it. she’s aware seto loves her in a way she thinks she can’t reciprocate. she feels guilty about it, because she would love to love him. little does she know that’s a perfectly valid way to love too…

she mostly explores her sexuality through doujinshi. let her live her fujo dream she’s right where she wants to be and don’t ask complicated questions. i think… she should himejoshi it up a little bit. it would maybe answer some questions… aroace lesbian mary.

momo: i’ve gone back and forth with my momo gender hcs too. i think i’ve landed on cis again because thinking again of how difficult and expensive HRT is in japan and her mom was struggling financially. and like she was a child star practically, she became famous very young, when would she have transitioned? it would’ve had to be very young.

trans children can barely get treatment as is in a country with laws about this (my country has them and i work with kids. it’s. a whole thing.) SO. that’s why i’ve landed on cis but i do like trans girl momo too… but in that world, i sort of imagine a kagepro where momo’s a “boy” for its run and transitions post str. i cant imagine her transitioning in current time because she’s famous, and not any younger either, y'know?

anyways. she’s a lesbian. but good old kisaragi way, it takes her a while to figure it out. i think post str she tries dating a little but it’s difficult bc again. famous!!! i think she went out with boys if she did go out, and kidomomoly speaking i think momo convinces herself the crush on kido was bc kido’s “boyish” and also Mekadan Leader so Very Cool!!! but no, i think she’d have her realization moment of being a lesbian. maybe she goes on a few dates with girls after. kido’s her first non boy (or girl lol) partner. but also kind of her first real partner. i picture momo as going on a bunch of dates but not ever getting in a relationship. if she does, it’s online dating with long distance heh

takane: nonbinary. bi. takane is nonbinary and nonhuman. is it called otherkin? i’m kinda clueless on that one. from my understanding otherkin is identifying as an animal though right. i don’t think takane identifies as an animal. I think she just feels nonhuman so that’s what i’m calling it.

takane’s one of our chronically online winners so i think she’d be WAY more aware of specifics and be able to put labels on things. if she lived in an english speaking place she’d fuck with they/them, it/its pronouns and neos. i doubt she bothers explaining any of this to the dan because no one really gets it, probably only haruka but then again they are in the same online spaces reading the same things, so haruka gets it. otherwise she just goes by she/her and doesn't really wanna explain anything to anyone. i don't think she has gender dysphoria i think she has I Hate Body Generally dysmorphia. also she's ace. also hypersexual. no i wont get into that territory here but just know that.

shintaro: cis. bi. local homophobe. cracks knuckles.

my momo headcanons either way align with her growing up raised as the gender she was assigned, so even if she transitions later on, shintaro still grew up unaware of trans people. he’s never thought of that in his life. until he meets mekadan. 

he’s the type of guy who’s like i’m like, totally fine with the gays… but uses gay as an insult. he thinks lesbians are hoooot and kind of a joke, and thinks gay men are all Sassy and Will try to "turn" you!!! "why do gay people wanna get married so bad lol they can still get partnership certificates which is the same thing! lololol"

oh and he doesn’t get the gender stuff At All. he can barely wrap his head around kido’s whole thing when they come out post str. he sort of makes sense of it thinking kido is a trans boy. ayano and takane keep explaining being nonbinary to him. but even with him thinking kido’s a boy he’s like uh… i GUESS that’s fine it’s none of my business… why would he wanna be a boy though he was such a pretty girl. but still mostly to himself or to yuukei quartet. again shintaro’s not a piece of shit also he minds his business he’s not out there telling kido all that lol

and he assumed for years seto was a boy. resets upon resets upon resets, seto was a boy. bazillion resets later, post str shintaro’s finding out seto’s always been a girl?? precious. beautiful, even. but as time goes on shintaro’s attitude also settles with getting used to all of it. i think as an older adult (kagefuture moments) he cringes thinking back to the things he’d think about kido or haruka (oh i’ll get to her.)

i think the way shintaro finally truly wraps his head around all of it, it's him just not caring and being like “people should always do whatever they want and i shouldn’t have to Get it because it’s not about Me. even if i don’t get it i’ll just call people what they ask me to call them” <- which is why trans kano or ayano would be. y’know more complicated. i think his feelings about it all should be a little deeper than just “meh i don’t HAVE to get it, i don’t care” if his partner is trans.

and his sexuality. man that sent him spiraling in the first place so imagine confusing him with making them trans too… dating ayano first, then kano. the gay panic is reversed. he’d think he’s gay for dating trans girl ayano and think he’s back to being straight if dating trans boy kano. BECAUSE HE’S SHINTARO!!!!!!! so. yep.

anywaysss bisexuality. shintaro realizing he’s bi is very kanoshin pilled on its own. i think post shinaya breakup shintaro’s on this Ruining all his relationships and personal life Arc. in between the unlucky contestants for this is kano who is INSANELY angry at shintaro because of shinaya breakup. i think shintaro and ayano’s breakup is a whole event. it makes everyone awkward, shintaro’s dying to get ayano back, ayano’s SUPER UPSET OF COURSE. so kano’s mad at shintaro. duh. so kano’s provoking shintaro and arguing with him like, constantly. and yeah so he kisses him a little. angrily. and it makes shintaro do the am i gay quizzes online.

shintaro’s redemption arc/self acceptance happens slowly, through the years. as he grows older he makes peace with okay yeah sure. i guess i like guys too. i’ll watch gay porn. i’m so woke <- very simplified because that does take years. actively approaching kano all that time later when they’re both way more normal (evidently not normal enough. stares at 700 pages comic) is a result of it too. but even being with kano he’s still a little stupid about it. he’s like sorry bottoming is way gayer. kano’s like IT’S GAY EITHER WAY MORON. and shintaro’s like no i don’t think so. you’re gayer than me because i also like girls. kano’s like IF WE BOTH LIKE DUDES WE’RE JUST AS GAY. shintaro’s like mmm no i don’t think so, no… continue growing shintaro. i believe in you. also he's aro. shint-aro. i have a whole post abt the shint-aro agenda

hibiya: easy one. cis. straight. the only one *wipes tear* i talked about him in an ask i got but i’ll talk about it Again.

village boy with a very traditional family ends up in a very queer friend group. i think hibiya goes through an Am I Gay situation but because he thinks it’s CONTAGIOUS. he can more easily understand trans people because hiyori’s trans so as soon as she’s like “while we’re in kashiwa, i’ll be a girl” hibiya’s like YES. OKAY. ALRIGHT. he doesn’t question it. it fast forwards what takes shintaro years to learn. he’s a bit confused over kido again defaults them to trans boy, but over the years also comes to understand.

now. he thinks lesbians don’t exist and being a gay guy is like, the biggest insult to the world. world’s most homophobic 12 year old. to be fair i hc his dad as the worst possible person u can imagine. i think hibiya calls kano a slur without realizing it’s a slur. just what his dad says at home watching tv yknow… mekadan floored. then they all lose their minds laughing. then momo hits hibiya on the head and says DONT CALL HIM THAT.

hibiya generally disliking kano because erm he was the cat. i think kano tells him and hiyori he was the cat. so hibiya DOES think less of kano and he’s like AND he’s fag?? he sucks. but hibiya’s 12 he grows and becomes woke it’ll be fine. i think older hibiya would maybe apologize to kano and kano’s like i literally didn’t even care lol i didn’t take it that seriously. and hibiya’s like u should care actually it’s messed up and u SHOULD take it seriously. and kano’s a little moved but they don’t hug or anything. they aren’t close like that. i think kano simply smiles and tells him he’s a nice boy.

haruka: TRANFEM HARUKA EEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE TRANSFEM HARUKA!! i’ll be using both she/he here okay.

i think if haruka were to transition it’d happen kagefuture times. not any younger. she discovers girlhood as a 30 year old. it’s beautiful… i think before that it’s usually all jokes and games bc he’s so girly haha and he’s dressing so girly too!! and… ohhh… he’s growing his hair out it feels nice… i think haruka’s just so self conscious i think it takes her a long time to truly like. have a serious conversation about it i’m sure with takane like erm it’s kind of not a joke sometimes. it’s kind of serious style sometimes. takane probably clocked it YEARS AGO. insert my comic of haruka being like i love my long hair it makes me feel like a girl 💖 she says shit like that so ofc takane’s like UH-HUH. but she just reassures her :3 yaaaay. yaaay!!!

i’m also inclined to say abt my harutaka fankid, maybe he just calls them both by their names rather than mom/dad. or mom/mom. it was making me cringe a little imagining haruka and takane being called mom and dad. not like with shinaya i totally Nod like yeah mom and dad with my shinaya kid. also asexual haruka. again. won't get into that but. i have thoughts

hiyori: trans girl! aromantic!!! hiyori’s straight up completely uninterested in dating or romance. she doesn’t GAF!!!!!!!!!!! i’ve tried to make sense of the konoha crush i just don’t care for it. i simply don’t. haruka’s pretty she just can recognize it it’s fine. comphet. and many such cases

now. she’s trans. and she goes FULLY GIRL for the weekend in kashiwa. that's how she comes out to hibiya. she tells him she’s hiyori now, as long as they're in kashiwa. then boom 10 year timeloop. tbh. she’s been a girl for 10 years by the time she gets home and has to get back to Boy Life. hiyori’s generally miserable because her parents for sure suck i mean ayaka RAN AWAY. but especially because she's in the closet!! so she does everything in her power to be able to leave the village for highschool. by then ayano’s doing her social work studies i think ayano helps her out SO MUCH with being able to go to school as a girl, but she's still not out to her parents. i think hiyori having long hair is her biggest problem back at home her parents are on her ASS about it.

when she graduates she stays in kashiwa for college. parents still send her money. hiyori drop out era because she’s AWESOME. parents DON’T KNOW she dropped out from college lmao also she was majoring in something they didn’t even want her to major in, they insisted on business school so she could take over the company but she fought them ‘til the end. then drops out anyway LMAO and all the money they send her for college stuff, she spends on HRT. YAAAAAAAY. hiyori gets the most expensive hrt and consistently does monotherapy. she hasn’t gone back home in uh. VERY VERY LONG. she’d never say it out loud but she’s terrified of going back and facing her parents.

because i’m a little obsessed with kano and hiyori being co-workers and unlikely friends. a oneshot fanfic i’m workshopping in my mind [set kagefuture moments] is kind of hiyori hitting rock bottom on this and asking kano [AGAINST HER BETTER JUDGEMENT AND GRITTED TEETH] if he could pretend to be Boy Her That’s Totally Going To College and go see her parents. i.e his grandparents he’s never met, technically. it would of course escalate into an argument, because kano would literally just laugh. and tell her she can’t run away from this forever (also deceiving eyes explanations, he technically/maybe wouldn’t be able to do that bc he’s never met her as a boy.)